Remote desktop manager for Mac

dazz25 · 5 Mar 2019 at 10:48

Hi all,

Are there any good remote desktop managers for the Mac? I currently use mRemoteNG on Windows which works brilliantly.

I mostly use RDP and SSH.

Thanks

Deleted member 77746 · 5 Mar 2019 at 10:56

Microsoft Remote Desktop?

or do you mean to manage macs not windows machines?

dazz25 · 5 Mar 2019 at 10:59

Does that do SSH?

Basically I'm after an app that will allow me to save, group and manage multiple connections.

ChrisD. · 5 Mar 2019 at 11:02

I haven't found anything as good as MobaXterm on Windows. It's a real shame they don't do a Mac version.

Currently using iTerm.

dazz25 · 5 Mar 2019 at 11:07

Ah used to use MobaXTerm as well. Great app.

Shame there isn't a Mac version.

Spammeh · 10 Jun 2019 at 00:03

Its not free, but I believe Remote Desktop Manager works on both Windows and MacOSX

bloodiedathame · 10 Jun 2019 at 00:07

Chrome Remote Desktop or Teamviewer.

ChrisD. · 10 Jun 2019 at 07:02

I’ve recently started using Royal TSX by far the best I’ve tried.

Feek · 10 Jun 2019 at 08:24

Don’t use TeamViewer, I had it set up for a couple of remote locations but they decided I was a commercial user and put a five minute timeout on my connections. I’m not a commercial and that five minute timeout was nearer thirty seconds.

Now I use VNC. Free for up to five computers and it’s working very well here. There is software for PC, Mac and Linux. I’m using it on my iMac to connect to three machines, one running Windows 10 and the other two are Raspberry Pis.

shine · 10 Jun 2019 at 08:30

I use the ssh config file to group my connections. The main ~/.ssh/config file just has links to my grouped ssh config files e.g.

Code:

Include ~/.ssh/personal
Include ~/.ssh/client_name/group_name/config

I have organised by client and sub-group with clients. This lets me keep all the keys and config on a per project/group basis, for example the ~/.ssh/client_name/group_name/config:

Code:

IdentitiesOnly yes
GSSAPIAuthentication no
UseKeychain yes
ServerAliveInterval 60

Host prodweb1
  Hostname web1.client.com
  User example
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/client/group/id_ed25519_prod

Host prodapp1
  Hostname app1.client.com
  User example
  IdentityFile ~/.ssh/client/group/id_ed25519_prod

It took a bit of time for the initial setup but it's worth it.

kitkat9933 · 10 Jun 2019 at 10:04

Royal TSX which is free for up to 10 connections.

Feek · 10 Jun 2019 at 12:09

I do something similar but @dazz25 did specifiy a Desktop Manager which suggests he needs to be able to access a GUI.

I've only installed the base GUI on the two Pis I control so I can actually get to them and run a terminal (they're both behind CGNAT so I can't just forward a port).

Rilot · 13 Jun 2019 at 10:08

Remote Desktop Manager: https://mac.remotedesktopmanager.com/home/downloadfree

I use it all day every day to manage Windows, Hyper-V, SSH sessions, Telnet, VMWare, and others. It will even talk to iDRAC and iLO.

doodah · 2 Jul 2019 at 13:11

Feek said:
Don’t use TeamViewer, I had it set up for a couple of remote locations but they decided I was a commercial user and put a five minute timeout on my connections. I’m not a commercial and that five minute timeout was nearer thirty seconds.

Now I use VNC. Free for up to five computers and it’s working very well here. There is software for PC, Mac and Linux. I’m using it on my iMac to connect to three machines, one running Windows 10 and the other two are Raspberry Pis.

TV can kiss my ****. It used to be great but it's just plain awful these days and I also keep getting flagged for commercial use (not sure how lazily connecting to my PC downstairs could be business driven). Thanks for the suggestion.

hartgeh3 · 26 Jul 2019 at 23:12

AnyDesk

Deleted member 138126 · 10 Aug 2019 at 17:59

ChrisD. said:
I’ve recently started using Royal TSX by far the best I’ve tried.

Oof Royal on Windows is honestly the slowest app I've ever used in my life (have not tried the Mac one).

Combat squirrel · 12 Aug 2019 at 11:26

Feek said:
Don’t use TeamViewer, I had it set up for a couple of remote locations but they decided I was a commercial user and put a five minute timeout on my connections. I’m not a commercial and that five minute timeout was nearer thirty seconds.

Now I use VNC. Free for up to five computers and it’s working very well here. There is software for PC, Mac and Linux. I’m using it on my iMac to connect to three machines, one running Windows 10 and the other two are Raspberry Pis.

How do you get this free for 5? its on a 30 day limited trial as far as i can see.

ChrisD. · 12 Aug 2019 at 11:30

rotor said:
Oof Royal on Windows is honestly the slowest app I've ever used in my life (have not tried the Mac one).

No issues at all on my Mac, it does Microsoft RDP better than the Microsoft client does. It's still not as good as say MobaXterm on the PC for Linux based sessions but it's probably the best macOS client I've tried.

Feek · 12 Aug 2019 at 11:31

They do seem to have hidden the free home option away - Have a look here and see if that helps.

Remote desktop manager for Mac

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